FESTIVE ROAD adds four new Roaders to its outsource service practise to continue to meet increasing client needs across a variety of execution areas.
Meet Kelly Schimke, based in Atlanta, USA
Kelly joins our outsourced travel team as Regional Operations Manager, Americas, bringing a wealth of experience and skill to the role. She has a strong background in operations, industry knowledge, and effective people leadership from former roles in the car rental and TMC world. We were proud to watch Kelly win the ‘mentee of the year award’ at GBTA Ladders recently, evidence of her real dedication to our industry.
Meet Cori Prasifka, based in Dallas, USA
Cori joins us as part of the dedicated team supporting Traveler Communications and Engagement for our client. Cori will contribute her robust marketing background to our Dallas hub, strengthening our presence in the region. She has already transformed our client’s internal team communications effort to ensure alignment across some key projects.
Meet Haripriya (Hari) Ramesh, based in Seattle, USA
Hari joins as a Technical Program Manager on our client’s Tech & Data team using her knowledge and experience on large language models and generative AI to transform the travel program. Hari has a passion for supporting women in technology and her energy and confident presence has already been noted during key team meetings, where she is bringing new and fresh ideas to the table.
Meet Catherine (Cat) Smith, based in Dallas, USA
Cat joins the Customer Insights team for our client, reflecting an increasing importance for Research & Insights across our customer base, when it comes to travel program management Cat has a strong background in Corporate Strategy across a range of impressive organizations. What Cat doesn’t know about Customer Insights, frankly isn’t worth knowing and we are all learning how to apply this with a travel lens!
Louise Kilgannon, Head of Outsourcing, said: “It has been fantastic to bring on new outsourcing Roaders with such a diverse and exciting range of skills and experiences. We are seeing the huge benefits in introducing new people to the industry and it is helping us to see travel quite differently, something which our clients are really taking advantage of. Our approach to resource management extends beyond the more ‘traditional’ travel roles and we are excited to see where this leads!”
FESTIVE ROAD is the only people-first and people-led company providing consulting and outsourcing services for global travel, meetings and expense programmes. Our purpose is to create better programmes for our clients, workplace for our people, and thought leadership for our industry.
